A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades.
Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of ...

Polls opened Sunday in El Salvador's presidential elections amid heavy security as voters look for change in a country beset by gang violence and widespread poverty.
Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of San Salvador, is the front-runner in a race that could upend the ...

The Trump administration said Thursday it will deny asylum to migrants who enter the United States illegally, invoking extraordinary presidential national security powers to tighten the border as caravans of Central Americans slowly approach the border.
The measures are meant to funnel asylum-seekers through official ...

A 106-year-old great-grandmother born in El Salvador became an American citizen Tuesday as the U.S. held bitterly contested midterm elections in which Central American immigration was a hot-button issue.
Maria Valles Bonilla waved a small American flag at a ceremony in Washington, her hand on ...

Thousands of Central American migrants in a caravan that has already advanced 250 miles (410 km) into Mexico hope they won't have to walk anymore, at least for a while.
Red Cross personnel on Wednesday bandaged the swollen feet of Honduran farmer Omar Lopez in ...

A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador on Sunday, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks.
The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital ...

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States will start cutting aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as a caravan of thousands of mostly Honduran migrants rolled on regardless toward the U.S. border.
The United Nations said more than 7,000 people were now heading ...

The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained in Guatemala on Tuesday as the U.S. government threatened to withdraw aid from both countries and El Salvador if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped.
Up to 3,000 migrants, ...

Slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI, Catholic giants who sparked controversy during their lifetimes, joined the church's highest rank Sunday with an elevation to sainthood.
Pope Francis wore a blood-stained rope belt that belonged to Romero, who was murdered at the altar, ...

A U.S. judge Tuesday repeated President Donald Trump's vulgar description of African countries while questioning his administration's motives for ending a program that lets immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the U.S.
Judge Edward Chen during a hearing in a lawsuit seeking ...

Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela on Sunday asked the United States to respect his country's sovereignty after the U.S. recalled its envoys from three regional countries for switching diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China.
"We respect the sovereign decisions of other countries and we will ...

The United States said on Friday it had recalled its top diplomats in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama over those countries' decisions to no longer recognize Taiwan.
Washington has expressed concern over the rising number of countries that have cut diplomatic ties with ...